The Hindu Business Line : Monday, April 12, 2004

FARM CREDIT
Interest waiver sought
MADURAI: Tiruchi District Central Cooperative Bank (TDCCB) has sought Rs 1 crore from Tamil Nadu State Cooperative Bank, its apex body, to waive interest on farm loans sanctioned by it, between April 1 and September 30, 2002. TDCCB has ... More

CULTIVATION
Welcome scene
Farmers ploughing their fields at Tavareker, near Bangalore, after welcome showers.

RUBBER
Rubber production exceeds 7 lakh tonnes
RUBBER production in the country has touched 7,11,000 tonnes against the original projection of 6,85,000 tonnesduring 2003-04.. The output has grown 9.5 per cent compared to that of 649,435 tonnes during 2002-03. The prevalence of a ... More

TEA
Kenya finds flavour in S. Indian tea
WHILE the new year seems to have brought relief to the tea industry in the form of improved exports to Iraq and Pakistan, a step-up in Kenyan offtake has further strengthened the optimistic undertone in the market. Kenya, one of the ... More

Coonoor tea down on poor quality
FOLLOWING prolonged drought, the quality of the 7.93 lakh kg of the teas offered for auctions conducted by the Coonoor Tea Trade Association (CTTA) here did not match the winter standards. Accordingly, there was a slip in the price levels, ... More

TECHNICAL ANALYSIS
Cotton prices may fall
NYCE cotton futures ended mixed on Thursday on low volumes ahead of a long weekend. Data from USDA on supply/demand and export sales was mostly ignored in spite of a positive undertone to it. The weekly USDA sales report showed combined US net ... More

DAIRY & DAIRY PRODUCTS
Mother Dairy to launch dairy whiteners?
AFTER milk, `dahi' (yoghurt), ice-cream, flavoured milk and butter, the National Dairy Development Board-owned Mother Dairy is now set to launch dairy whiteners. According to industry sources, the NDDB subsidiary would use the Karnal-based ... More

OILSEEDS & EDIBLE OIL
Backward integration of solvent extraction units must for survival
AN increase of over 70 per cent in the quantum of oilmeals exported from the country during fiscal 2003-04 has helped put life back into the moribund solvent extraction industry. The 600-and-odd processing units spread across the country that ... More

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